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CRTC looking to add a new radio station in Calgary, Alta.

Media | 03/15/2024 1:14 pm EDT

The CRTC is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing to obtain a radio licence to serve Calgary, Alta., having found that the market can sustain at least one additional radio station. “The market may best be served by proposals for ethnic and...

CRTC to consider new radio station for Yellowknife

Media | 03/14/2024 4:19 pm EDT

The CRTC has decided to look at whether the town of Yellowknife, NWT can support another FM radio station. The commission announced Thursday that it is calling on all interested parties to file an application. Last May, 506992 N.W.T. Ltd. – operating as Cabin Radio –...

Court rejects station’s request for Rogers to disclose subscriber info

Media | 03/04/2024 3:32 pm EST

The Superior Court of Quebec has dismissed a request from RNC Media Inc. to...

BQ calls for support of CBC/Radio Canada and other media outlets

Media | 02/01/2024 12:29 pm EST

The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...

Tait won’t rule out bonus pay for CBC’s top brass despite job cuts

Media | 01/30/2024 6:42 pm EST

CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...

CRTC initiates special process for official language minorities input for English content on French radio 

Internet and Governance | 01/25/2024 4:38 pm EST

The CRTC has initiated a special consultation process regarding an application for amendments to the conditions of service for a French-language community radio station based...

Community radio calls for new funding at CRTC

Internet and Governance | 11/24/2023 7:56 am EST

Representatives from several community radio stations emphasized their role as a third-pillar of the...

Rogers closes Ottawa news station, returns licence to CRTC

Media | 10/26/2023 6:30 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. has shuttered its all-news station in the...

Squamish BC gets new FM station to compete with Rogers

Media | 09/08/2023 5:41 pm EDT

The CRTC Friday granted an FM licence to Four Senses Entertainment Inc. to...

Another FM station gets short-term renewal for non-compliance

Media | 08/29/2023 4:50 pm EDT

The CRTC issued another short-term broadcasting licence renewal after it...

CRTC defers radio filings for two years to focus on Online Streaming Act

Media | 08/22/2023 4:39 pm EDT

The CRTC will defer new applications and complaints relating to radio as it...

Montreal radio station gets short term renewal over non-compliance

Media | 08/15/2023 4:42 pm EDT

Once again the CRTC has decided to issue a short term renewal licence to a...

Two BC radio stations have hands slapped by CRTC over non-compliance

Media | 08/14/2023 5:32 pm EDT

Two radio stations in British Columbia have been granted short-term...

CRTC denies request from Rogers-owned radio station to lower CanCon requirement

telecom | 08/10/2023 4:32 pm EDT

The CRTC has denied a request from Rogers Communications Inc. to delete the CanCon condition of license (COL) for Kitchener’s Country 106.7 radio station, CIKZ-FM. In a...

SiriusXM latest broadcaster denied relief from the CRTC

Media | 06/20/2023 5:37 pm EDT

The CRTC denied SiriusXM Canada Inc.’s request for relief from its...

CRTC encourages radio stakeholders to participate in contribution consults

Internet and Governance | 06/12/2023 2:35 pm EDT

CRTC Commissioner Nirmala Naidoo urged members of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) to participate in consultations...

Catherine Tait reappointed as president of CBC/Radio-Canada

Media | 06/01/2023 5:04 pm EDT

The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...

CRTC issues broadcasting licence fees

Media | 03/22/2023 1:03 pm EDT

The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total...

CRTC grants Indigenous station radio license 

Media | 03/09/2023 3:01 pm EST

The CRTC Thursday approved a radio broadcasting license for Piikani Resource Development Ltd. on behalf of Piikani Tsi Nii Ka Sin Broadcasting Association to broadcast a low-power Indigenous FM radio station in Brocket, Alberta.  Piikani Broadcasting is a not-for-profit,...

CRTC releases pair of broadcasting reports that paint dire picture

Media | 03/03/2023 6:04 pm EST

The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...

CRTC won’t grant Yellowknife FM station, two commissioners dissent

Media | 02/15/2023 5:01 pm EST

After years of consideration, the CRTC determined that Yellowknife, NWT...

Ethics commissioner finds MP Fergus violated rules with letter to CRTC

Media | 02/14/2023 2:20 pm EST

Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has found that...

CRTC calls for FM radio applications in Joliette, Que.

Media | 01/23/2023 3:06 pm EST

Monday the CRTC opened up the radio market in Joliette, Que., calling for...

CRTC awards Mennonite group FM station in Alberta

Media | 01/17/2023 5:20 pm EST

The CRTC Tuesday approved a proposal for an FM station serving La Crete, Alta. Two years ago the...

London Ont. to get commercial ethnic radio station

Media | 01/16/2023 4:09 pm EST

Monday the CRTC approved an application by Malayalam Commercial Radio Inc. for a low-power commercial...

CRTC revamps Canadian content regulations for radio; CAB dismayed

Media | 12/07/2022 5:43 pm EST

The CRTC has revised its rules for Canadian content in commercial radio. In...

CRTC to hold hearings on radio station proposals

Media | 12/05/2022 3:57 pm EST

The CRTC announced Monday that it will hold proceedings in February to consider six applications before it. Two are proposals for new stations, two are transfers of existing stations and two are for rebroadcasting transmitters. Pickering College Campus Radio is asking for...

Keep CanCon requirements for Rogers community radio, FRPC tells CRTC

Media | 12/01/2022 9:35 am EST

The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) told the...

TV revenues recover while radio continues decline: CRTC report

Media | 08/23/2022 5:03 pm EDT

Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues...

Sarnia, Ont., won’t see new radio stations for at least 2 years: CRTC

Media | 07/27/2022 2:32 pm EDT

The CRTC denied a request  filed by Sarnia Media and Entertainment Inc. for a broadcasting licence to operate an English-language low-power commercial FM radio station in...

CRTC grants CBC flexibility for push to digital

Media | 06/22/2022 6:45 pm EDT

The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a...

CRTC approves new television rebroadcaster in British Columbia

Media | 04/22/2022 2:39 pm EDT

Friday the CRTC approved an application by the Burns Lake & District...

Corus profit margins lower, citing end of CEWS.

Media | 04/08/2022 5:01 pm EDT

Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...

CBC license administratively renewed, full decision to come by late June 

Media | 03/29/2022 3:56 pm EDT

The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...

CRTC approves Arsenal, Cogeco, radio swap

Media | 03/25/2022 2:42 pm EDT

The CRTC approved two separate applications by Cogeco Inc. and Arsenal Media which would essentially see...

Federal government spends $2.5m to battle disinformation

Internet and Governance | 03/16/2022 3:17 pm EDT

The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...

CRTC holding hearing for Indigenous radio, French-language radio, applications

Media | 03/07/2022 3:59 pm EST

The commission is holding a hearing for two separate applications for a...

Wide support for new community ethnic station in Winnipeg

Media | 01/28/2022 2:47 pm EST

The CRTC has received widespread support for a new community ethnic FM station in Winnipeg, according to interventions filed with the commission. The regulator is currently assessing if another station should start broadcasting in the Manitoba capital at 88.7 on the dial....

CRTC approves migration of Atlantic stations from AM to FM

Media | 01/26/2022 3:33 pm EST

The CRTC Wednesday approved the transfer of two English-language AM radio...

CRTC approves community FM station on Salt Spring Island

Media | 01/24/2022 12:25 pm EST

On Monday the CRTC granted a licence to a new community FM station on Salt...

CRTC CPE deferral will mean revenue in 2023: Corus CEO

Media | 01/13/2022 5:07 pm EST

Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy reiterated a long-standing call...

CRTC solicits comments on FM radio applications

Media | 11/12/2021 12:39 pm EST

The CRTC is calling for comments on a series of FM radio applications in smaller markets across the...

CRTC denies license for low-power Alberta Mennonite radio station 

Media | 10/08/2021 6:27 pm EDT

The CRTC Friday rejected an application for a broadcast license to operate a "low-power, ethnic specialty commercial"radio station in the Mennonite community of La Crête,...

CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications

Media | 10/05/2021 4:06 pm EDT

The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...

Local Radio Lab acquiring three stations in Ontario

Media | 06/25/2021 1:27 pm EDT

Local Radio Lab Inc. will be picking up three stations near the Greater Toronto area following approval of its application Friday by the CRTC.  The broadcaster is acquiring three English-language stations -- CIMA-FM Alliston,...

CRTC rejects Amherstburg FM station proposal, citing Windsor radio market impact

Media | 06/17/2021 5:53 pm EDT

The CRTC has denied an application from Amherstburg Broadcasting...

CRTC approves broadcasting licence for Mohawk station in Quebec

Media | 06/14/2021 5:40 pm EDT

The CRTC has approved a new broadcasting licence for Mohawk Multi Media Inc., allowing it to operate an English and Kanien’ke:ha (Mohawk) language Indigenous ration station in Kanesatake/Oka,...

Stingray gets French designation for HITS service 

Media | 06/02/2021 5:28 pm EDT

The CRTC approved a request from broadcaster Stingray Group Inc. Wednesday, asking that it be allowed to change its English-language discretionary service, Stingray HITS, into a French service.  According to the decision, the...

Fort Erie radio station must keep 3 hours of news per week: CRTC

Media | 05/11/2021 5:36 pm EDT

The CRTC has denied Byrnes Communications Inc.’s request to amend its broadcasting licence so that its Fort Erie station is no longer bound to broadcast a minimum of three hours of news programming...

Indigenous non-profit takes over Quebec station after 3 year radio silence

Media | 05/11/2021 5:09 pm EDT

Mohawk Multi Media Inc. was given the green light by the CRTC to acquire the assets of  CKHQ-FM, a low-power English and Mohawk language Indigenous radio station broadcasting in Kanesatake and Oka,...

Supreme Court to hear making available right dispute

Media | 04/26/2021 5:55 pm EDT

The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...

Numerous groups urge CRTC not to cut CanCon quotas for radio

Media | 04/01/2021 4:39 pm EDT

Numerous advocacy groups and smaller broadcasters are recommending that the CRTC avoid cutting Canadian Content quotas for radio stations. These views come from a broad group of intervenors, writing in response to the Commission’s consultation on Canadian commercial...

Canadian radio broadcasters ask CRTC for space to compete with streamers

Media | 03/30/2021 5:35 pm EDT

The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple...

Half of Canadians want CanCon regs for music streaming services: CRTC survey

Media | 02/23/2021 5:19 pm EST

A new survey suggests that just over half of Canadians believe that...

Intervention deadline extended for commercial radio review

Media | 01/11/2021 5:37 pm EST

The CRTC has extended its deadline for interventions to its commercial radio policy framework review following a procedural request from various associations representing the music sector....

Court won’t hear appeal over CRTC’s radio licence denial

Media | 01/04/2021 4:52 pm EST

The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected an application for leave to appeal by a broadcaster whose radio licence was denied renewal by the CRTC. The CRTC denied the licence renewal for Groupe...

CanCon relief will help commercial radio compete with Spotify: Bell Media 

Media | 11/19/2020 5:40 pm EST

Canadian content programming relief from the CRTC would allow BCE Inc.'s radio stations to more effectively compete with streaming giants like Spotify AB, according to Bell...

CRTC consulting on its commercial radio policy

Media | 11/13/2020 10:17 am EST

The CRTC has launched a consultation to review its regulatory framework for the commercial radio sector. It said in Thursday’s notice of consultation that it’s looking to “update the regulatory framework to best serve the...

Community radio pushes back on CAB CanCon relief request

Media | 10/30/2020 12:41 pm EDT

The National Campus and Community Radio Association, Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada and Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec have filed a joint intervention arguing...

Radio station appealing CRTC licence denial in court

Media | 09/09/2020 4:44 pm EDT

After the CRTC refused to renew its broadcast licence earlier this summer, Groupe Médias Pam Inc. has turned to the Federal Court of Appeal, asking it to overturn that CRTC decision. In July, the regulator denied the renewal...

COVID has accelerated media ‘crisis’: report

Media | 08/26/2020 5:17 pm EDT

Canadian traditional media sources are in "crisis" as COVID-19 has exacerbated existing downward trends in advertising revenues, with shortfalls for local private broadcasters in the next two years...

Iqaluit radio stations licences renewed despite non-compliance

Media | 08/25/2020 5:23 pm EDT

Two Nunavut radio stations owned by Northern Lights Entertainment Inc. have had their broadcasting licences extended for just two years after the CRTC found they had failed to comply with a series of...

Broadcasters asked CRTC for emergency COVID-19 relief in July

Media | 08/21/2020 4:31 pm EDT

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters asked the CRTC not to enforce...

Cogeco radio feels COVID hit, but overall revenues increase

telecom | 07/16/2020 4:42 pm EDT

In its first quarterly report to include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cogeco Inc.’s radio revenues fell by one-third, though its overall revenue beat analyst expectations. In the results...

CRTC denies applications for new radio stations in Vancouver, Grande Prairie

Media | 07/06/2020 4:24 pm EDT

The CRTC has said no to two applications for new radio stations -- one in...

Q3 ‘very tough’ for Corus as ad revenues plummet

Media | 06/26/2020 3:27 pm EDT

The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus Entertainment Inc. as advertising revenue dropped dramatically, CEO Doug Murphy told analysts on Friday, with total revenues dropping 24 per cent on the year before to $348.9...

No new commercial radio stations in Scarborough, CRTC says

Media | 06/26/2020 3:07 pm EDT

The Scarborough radio market can’t support another commercial radio...

CRTC to put commercial radio policy framework under the microscope

Media | 01/28/2020 2:23 pm EST

  The CRTC will review the policy framework surrounding commercial radio in Canada, including media consolidation rules, quotas of Canadian content and limits on the amount of top 40 songs...

No plans to change alerts system, for now: CRTC

telecom | 01/13/2020 5:18 pm EST

The CRTC says there’s no immediate plans to change the regulations governing Canada’s emergency alert system after an Ontario -wide alert about an incident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station was sent in error. ...

Corus TV revenues up, radio down

telecom | 01/10/2020 5:42 pm EST

Corus Entertainment Inc. this morning reported television revenue either in line or slightly higher than...

Alberta court bans station from using Corus trademark legacy

Media | 11/19/2019 5:39 pm EST

An Alberta court has sided with Corus Entertainment Inc. in banning the use of the broadcaster’s lapsed trademark by a radio station that just rebranded this summer.  Power 107 is a pop music station run by Calgary-based Harvard Broadcasting Inc. that launched in...

Bell and Stingray partner on targeted ads for radio, audio streaming

Media | 09/26/2019 5:05 pm EDT

BCE Inc. and Stingray Group Inc. have launched a targeted advertising platform that allows ads to be placed on their radio stations, audio streaming apps and podcasts. The companies said in a press...

CRTC commissioning research on global public broadcasters

Media | 07/29/2019 12:54 pm EDT

Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...

CRTC approves Stingray Alta. radio station buy

Media | 07/15/2019 4:59 pm EDT

The CRTC has approved an acquisition by Stingray Group Inc. of the radio station CHOO-FM in Drumheller,...

Broadcast news tax credit exclusion means cuts ‘inevitable’: CAB

Media | 07/02/2019 5:27 pm EDT

The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...

Scott says CRTC willing to be ‘flexible’ in future radio regulation

Media | 06/06/2019 1:41 pm EDT

CRTC chairman and CEO Ian Scott told a broadcasting conference Tuesday that the commission is “prepared to be flexible with new approaches to regulation” as it prepares to review its policy for...

Cogeco calling for radio representation on tax credit panel

Media | 05/22/2019 5:25 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...

Rogers buys podcast producer Pacific Content

Media | 05/01/2019 5:20 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. today announced that it is acquiring the Vancouver-based podcast company Pacific Content. “Podcasting is a big part of the future of audio. We quickly identified its immense potential and are being...

Corus’ turnaround partly propelled by ads returning to linear

Media | 04/05/2019 6:36 pm EDT

Corus Entertainment Inc. said it will see TV ad growth in the third quarter...

CRTC consulting on Vancouver radio market capacity

telecom | 04/04/2019 3:28 pm EDT

The CRTC wants to know whether the Vancouver radio market can sustain another radio station, after it received an application from Rogers Communications Inc. for a new broadcasting licence. It said in the notice of consultation Thursday that any other parties interested in serving that market should speak up during the consultation process. They should also identify the frequency any proposed station would use, the CRTC said, noting that there is a scarcity of spectrum in Vancouver and the Rogers station would use a frequency it currently has a licence for, to use for a rebroadcasting...

Bell asks to shut down 28 rebroadcasting transmitters

telecom | 03/26/2019 6:15 pm EDT

BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the CRTC to allow it to shutter 28 of its rebroadcasting...

CRTC rejects Vista’s bid for a new radio station in Timmins

Media | 03/20/2019 1:31 pm EDT

The CRTC has decided the Timmins, Ontario commercial radio market can’t sustain another station, rejecting an application by Vista Radio Ltd. for another broadcasting licence. Timmins has four...

Gov’t says pirate radio station has gone silent

Media | 03/19/2019 4:23 pm EDT

An illegal radio station that allegedly kept operating despite being shut down by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has been off the air since last August, the government said in a response tabled on...

Rural broadband, new tax rules among industry pre-budget asks

Media | 03/15/2019 5:55 pm EDT

As the Liberal government unveils its last budget before the upcoming...

Press council warns BTLR of ‘gap’ in complaints process for broadcasters

Media | 02/15/2019 4:16 pm EST

The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing Canada’s broadcasting laws to express concern about a “gap in the current public complaints framework...

Don’t mandate text message warning for emergency alerts: telecoms

telecom | 02/08/2019 3:29 pm EST

The majority of Canadian wireless providers who weighed in on a proposal to...

Don’t exclude online services from Broadcasting Act: Private radio

Media | 02/04/2019 12:00 pm EST

Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...

CRTC reviewing capacity of three radio markets

Media | 01/30/2019 2:33 pm EST

The CRTC has launched consultations on the radio market capacity of Vernon, B.C., Grande Prairie, Alta., and Scarborough, Ont. It said in the notices of consultation published Tuesday that it had received applications for new...

Corus sees TV ad rebound in Q1

telecom | 01/11/2019 5:14 pm EST

Corus Entertainment Inc. reported quarterly results Friday that showed TV ad revenue increasing 3.6 per...

Stingray to acquire Alberta radio station CHOO-FM

Media | 01/08/2019 12:15 pm EST

Montreal-based Stingray Group Inc.’s radio arm says it has entered into an agreement to acquire the...

Harmonize all emergency alert tests: officials

telecom | 01/03/2019 5:23 pm EST

The current requirements for emergency alert tests, which specify a different schedule for...

CRTC to require big broadcasters to report on women in production

Media | 01/03/2019 3:18 pm EST

The CRTC plans to soon start measuring the participation of women in television production and how much big TV broadcasters spend on production of Indigenous and official language minority...

CRTC says Quebec City radio market can’t sustain another station

Media | 12/06/2018 2:35 pm EST

The CRTC has rejected two warring bidders who wanted to set up commercial...

CRTC says yes to new Alta. radio station, no to two Quebec applications

Media | 12/03/2018 3:43 pm EST

In a trio of decisions Monday, the CRTC approved a broadcast licence application for a new station in Cochrane, Alta., and declined both an application for a new station in Lachute, Que. and to renew a defunct community station’s existing licence. The commission said Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. can launch a commercial FM country music station in Cochrane, despite turning down a similar application from the company two years ago over concerns it could have a negative impact on the nearby...